Mayor pleads for Bacchus Marsh NBN certainty

The Mayor of the Moorabool Shire says it is unclear when problems with the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout in Bacchus Marsh will be resolved.

Yesterday, a long-awaited strategic review by NBN Co found both the Coalition and Labor had dramatically underestimated the cost and time the rollout will take.

Bacchus Marsh was promoted by the NBN Co as the first town in regional Victoria to be covered by the new network.

However, Mayor Paul Tatchell says since the federal election, it has become unclear when, or if, parts of the town will ever be connected.

"We'd taken the view, and we took it in good faith, that we would promote the NBN and for good reason, and we believed, and we had every reason to believe, that every home and every business in Bacchus Marsh we would be the only town totally 100 per cent covered by NBN and here we are many years later and we're no better off," he said.

"We still have issues or a lack parity from one street to another," he said.

"In fact, in some streets, one side of the road to another, where some are connected to the home, others have no connection, we have businesses who have been waiting on connections, so obviously nothing has changed."